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A Lurker's History of Paradox and the Paradox Community *
by Stacy Rowley

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The Mid-1990s Windows Days: the People (the Community)

Bill Todd There were some prolific writers for the Paradox Informant, people like Bill Todd, Cary Jensen, Mark Pauker, Henrik Bechmann, John Moore, and Leon Chalnick. Their articles and the forum threads were very important, because PW had matured but was complex enough that we were just then coming to grips with how best (or how not) to do various things. Since frequently there existed more than one approach to accomplish a task, it was an interesting time of learning, finally, how to develop well.

A Mark Pauker article on highlighting records in a tableframe became a classic. Henrik Bechmann covered transaction processing with rollbacks and provided a framework for error handling. Henrik Bechmann
The CompuServe forum had much the same casting, with Henrik Bechmann, Ulrich Zindler, and Eric Taylor being welcome additions.

Conferences became epidemic. From November 1993 to February 1994, there were five conferences (Washington, DC; London; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Hong Kong; and San Francisco), sometimes combined with dBASE. The Borland conferences became database conferences and then Borland product conferences.

Robert Clark and Joe Saturnia, Paradox developers from northern New Jersey, started to organize Paradox Developer Conferences. The first was held in Atlantic City in January 1993. That was followed in November 1993 in Washington, D.C., February 1994 in San Francisco for West Coast developers, and the last in November 1994 in Chicago.


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